Seattle out-of-Darfur protest; city mum

Activists plan to protest Friday afternoon against the city of Seattle’s investment of employees’ pension funds in companies with interests in the Darfur region of Sudan. The plan is to march from Westlake Park to City Hall from about 3 to 6 p.m.

The city’s retirement director would not answer questions this week about how those tax dollars are invested.

Another group Seattle voters to tell the city to divest its pension investments from contractors benefiting from the war in Iraq. The city retirement office would also not say whether the city holds such stocks, nor whether her office would comply with the ballot measure if approved by voters.